When the holidays don’t match the picture in your head, the gap can feel like grief. This year brought fevers, cancellations, and a quiet house that amplified old patterns of shutdown. I share what helped me move through the heaviness with care: naming the dorsal state of the nervous system, choosing breathwork over busyness, protecting sleep, and inviting small, real moments of connection with my kids when plans fell apart. You’ll hear how I traded perfection for presence and found meaning ...
Dec 31, 2025
21 min
We explore how two opposing beliefs—“I have to do everything" and "I can't do anything"—grow from different nervous system states and how peace begins by shifting our state toward safety and connection. Using Polyvagal Theory, we offer practical steps to move from survival into grounded presence and how that approach can ripple out to create a more peaceful world. • mapping sympathetic overdrive and dorsal shutdown to everyday thoughts • why state drives story and limits choice • using the n...
Dec 24, 2025
25 min
The holidays can feel bright for some and unbearably heavy for others. I open up about a Christmas that nearly ended my marriage and trace how those memories slowly softened—not by accident, but because the brain can change and grow when it feels safer. This is a story that starts with depression and disconnection, then moves to the science of hope: moving beyond survival mode, neural pruning, and memory reconsolidation. It’s also a map for finding one supported step when the season overwhelm...
Dec 17, 2025
23 min
Holidays have a way of pulling old feelings to the surface. This time, two truths came up at once: the enduring ache of losing my dad five years ago, and a quieter grief I call “ADHD grief”—the gap between the cozy, orderly home I imagine and the real limits of my brain and nervous system. I share the moments that stopped me mid-task, what changed when I paused to feel instead of fix, and how gratitude began to stand beside grief without erasing it. You’ll hear how an unexpected gathering on...
Dec 10, 2025
18 min
We explore how ketamine-assisted psychotherapy can quiet an overactive alarm system, reopen access to rest, and create a window where new habits take hold through integration. We share the science in plain language and the personal practices that helped changes last. • stigma and misconceptions around ketamine and psychedelic-assisted therapies • how amygdala quieting and parasympathetic activation support safety • interoception and reconnecting with the body • neuroplasticity and loosening ...
Dec 3, 2025
27 min
Healing doesn’t always arrive as a lightning bolt. Sometimes it looks like a short, supported window where defenses soften and your nervous system finally has space to reorganize. That’s the potential of ketamine-assisted psychotherapy: not a shortcut, but a different door into change. We take you from ketamine’s legal role as an anesthetic to its misunderstood 90s reputation, then into the research era where clinicians began seeing fast-acting benefits for people labeled “treatment-resistan...
Nov 26, 2025
21 min
The hardest part of a taxing day likely isn’t a thing on the to-do list— our nervous system state that influences how we perceive what needs to be done and if we have on "depression googles," we can expect that even the lightest load may feel like seriously heavy lifting. When depletion hits and dorsal shutdown pulls you under, forcing productivity can deepen the spiral. I share how I recognized my capacity, swapped a plan that I didn't feel connected to in the moment for one that felt ...
Nov 19, 2025
16 min
What if real rest isn’t zoning out, but learning to feel safely still in your own body? Trish takes you inside her year-long journey with ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, sharing what KAP actually looks like—from medical screening and at-home setup to music-guided sessions, dosing with lozenges, and why a simple request for lip balm became a breakthrough in receiving care. We walk step by step through the first session nerves, blood pressure protocols, eye mask and playlist prep, and the gen...
Nov 12, 2025
33 min
Growth doesn’t wait for a finish line. This episode leans into the messy middle—where self-care becomes more consistent, mirrors from friends provide a much needed self-reflection, and you realize you’ve been practicing a new identity long before you felt “ready.” I talk about the milestones that surprised me, like releasing 40 podcast episodes, and the realization that our self-growth can be inhibited when we (unconsciously) keep ourselves stuck in old identities. I begin to wonder about wha...
Nov 5, 2025
22 min
✨ Free Resource: Download my guide, 100 Practices That Can Increase Your Access to Rest & Renewal — filled with simple, doable ways to rest your body, mind, and spirit. These are small, easy to incorporate practices for eight kinds of rest — from physical and emotional to creative and communal and more. 👉 Grab your free copy here! (regulatedrelationships.kit.com/rest) Feeling exhausted even after a full night’s sleep? We dig into why rest doesn’t land when your nervous system is stu...
Oct 29, 2025
21 min
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